Laudario Miniature the Martyrdom of St Lucy by Pacino di Bonaguida c.1330
Laudario Miniature the Martyrdom of St Lucy by Pacino di Bonaguida c.1330
In 2007 three miniatures in the Old Library at Queens' were attributed to the 14th Century Florentine artist Pacino di Bonaguida. They illustrate the martyrdom of St Lucy (shown here), the martyrdom of St James the Great and the martyrdom of St Christopher.
Once part of a book commissioned around 1330 by the Confraternity of St Agnes, a private organisation of devout laymen, the purpose of the Laudario was to illustrate the martyrdom of a number of Saints along with words and music to be sung, or lauded, on each Saint's Day. These items are first recorded in the Queens' Collection in 1955.